I've been cleaning up the sides, under the espalier trees, and the middle, under the mini-fruit trees. There has been some encroachment by aggressive weed grasses and this is the time to fix that.
Mostly I've been laying flat cardboard from boxes in top and covering that with a thick layer of tree leaves. The cardboard will self-compost in a year, and the leaves will last about that long too. Then tney enrich the soil.
The black containers will be roses. The one on the right is the David Austin rose, Vanessa Bell, with ground cover of trailing sedum and muscari. The other isn't planted yet. I'm mulching the main pathways with arborist chips, which will take my traffic better than the leaves.
About 2/3 of the winter work is completed now.
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